With the incoming balance changes to STO, the community seems to be more divided than ever... And this got me thinking...
How many of us are willing to loose our current builds and upgrades to everything... Some of our time put onto STO... In order to make STO more balanced and more fun gameplay that is not focused on number crunching and is controlled by the DPSmeta that we currently have...
Are you willing to loose some of what you've put into STO in favour of a better STO?
Are you willing to accept big nerfs on everything in favor of finally balancing STO gameplay? 209 votes
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So if you'd ask "would you accept rebuilding your characters following a (hypothetical) revising of the games' rules for a balanced gameplay" I would probably say "yes", however there is no saying what these changes would encompass and not two people could find a common ground on this anyway. Like this I can't answer the question.
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Thats all it comes down to
But having everything I worked for and spent time on totally devalued and nerfed into the ground? absolutely not!
if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
Because if they can truly deliver a more balanced and fun game then what's there to loose?
I'm gonna enjoy playing it more and the changes (even if i have to start all over) means that's another challenge to explore; how to get my build back into shape under new circumstances.
That means more experimentation, learning new tricks and tactics, relearning things i forgot. It could revitalize the game by cutting away the "dead" meta that's taken over and dragged the game into nothing but a number chasing spamfest.
I'd like to see them try to fix the lack of balance now - and then keep the game balanced. Things should never have gotten so out of hand in the first place, and they definitely shouldn't sell the very thing they now (rightfully so though) treat as a problem.
That's again phrased in a difficult manner. If the nerfs come anyway there is nothing you can do about it as "not accepting" it would essentially mean to simply quit playing
In my opinion, as I outlined above, I am willing to rebuild my characters and revise everything in a new ruleset. If it's simply "nerfs" we talk about that means that nothing fundamental changes and only figures get modified (+10% damage instead of +30% on ability X for example). This doesn't rebalance the game nor does it "fix" anything when the baseline ruleset doesn't really work. In this case I'd answer with "no" since I don't think it's constructive. But I'm not opposed to "sacrifice" everything for a new ruleset, which could just as well be "yes" so, eh
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^this
seems to be some weird mentality that associates the concept of balance with 'NERF EVERYTHING!' goin round here like a contagious disease
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no I don't think cryptic will balance jack
Unfortunately it generally works out to be "lots of nerfs and changes, leading to a different state of unbalance, annoying almost everyone and pleasing a few who didn't use the stuff that was nerfed anyway".
(But I will be quite happy if that doesn't prove to be the case, of course.)
HECK YES....too many snowflakes in this MMO with deep pockets who dont use their heads as intended but just acquired the I WIN button and PEW PEW PEW like walking dead automatons
Basically this. Balance is not nerfs, balance is sometimes nerfs sometimes buffs.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
And since they're clearly not interested in adding any content hard enough to need more power, they have to nerf the old so they have room to sell the new.
In order to sell, they need to be stronger, better than the last one, so what ever is in, will need to be more powerful than the last... So in a few years, we are back to square one.
As long as Cryptic does not set up a series of hard and soft counters to given scenarios, and stick with them, this will be nonsense...
We've seen it before, and we will see it again.
I disagree. In the current meta DPS is the most important thing and people have invested huge amounts of time and resources into obtaining and upgrading ships and equipment to maximise it.
If "balancing" the game results in those ships and items becoming less effective at completing content then it is most definitely a nerf, and those people who have invested months of time and huge amounts of resources into obtaining them will have right to feel aggrieved.
I wonder if cryptic will refund zen and dilithium for ships and items that no longer perform as they did when purchased / upgraded? I doubt it, but if you bought a v8 car and when it went in for its first service they took out the v8 and put in a 4 cylinder engine I think anyone would be pissed off.
Now if we only could get two different players to agree what "balance" is... (hint: it is what *I* think it should be )
Because that's what "nerf everying" says and it so OBVIOUSLY unrelated to what's actually going to happen, why even discuss it?
First line: You really expect an MMO to remain static and that after all that time/work nothing is going to change? This would be the first MMO in history to do that then, cause none do this. Why would you expect STO not to update things?
Second line: Again, see line one. Change is expected. You can't expect to spend all that time and think once you finally reach the top, that this is gonna stay at the top forever, that simply doesn't happen in an MMO. At least not if they want to stay around for more than a few years.
Third: No game company has ever refunded due to changes, and its actually ridiculous to think it should even be brought up. MMO's change, they get patched and updated. Sometime for good, sometimes for ill, but take it to the bank change of some sort is going to happen as time passes, this is a CONSTANT in the MMO genre, the game dies if it doesn't.
And beyond that, there is a precedent here with T5 ships being supplanted by T6 ships. T5U ships might still be good, but T6 ones are simply better.